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Re: [APD] Cardinals, finned or feathered



Anyhow, that's what the lions have told us ;-)

Scott H.
--- Seweryn Bialasiewicz <s_bialasiewicz at hotmail_com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> The schooling behaviour is most probably an instinctive
> survival tool, which 
> goes in hand with the colouring, rather than because of
> it. . . .This could serve the function of breaking up
> their individual 
> profiles, thus preventing the predator from focusing on
> one fish. This is 
> akin to that of another strikingly coloured and patterend
> animal, the zebra, 
> which in herds is very difficult to visually isolate
> individuals.


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